Editorial February 15, 1908 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE THE WHOLE GOSPEL

Archibald McLellan

In the American Hebrew of Jan. 31, there appeared an editorial from which we quote as follows:—

There have been so many explanations of the growth of Christian Science that we venture to add ours to the number. We believe it will be found upon investigation that the followers of the new faith are made up of those who were not attached, or who were but nominally attached, to other churches. With the scientific development of the last half of the last century, there came a tremendous religious unrest, not measurable, even approximately, by the number of avowed skeptics or agnostics, but reaching far into the ranks of those whose church attendance survived though their faith had perished. Since that period—say since the seventies of the nineteenth century—a generation has grown up, and to many of that generation religion was a word without personal significance. As the pendulum invariably swings form one extreme to the other, the revolt from religion was, naturally, to materialism. The harvest of unfaithful stewardship which has recently been so plentifully garnered is the inevitable crop whose seed was sown by irreligion. ...

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